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0. The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:38 pm

(written on wordpad, spelling will be off and spacing issues may happen, ill fix what i can, otherwise piss off about it)

0. Introduction
1. Action vs Inaction
2. Who do you trust?
3. Supplies
4. Weapons and tactics
5. Defense
6. Mobility
7. Seige Warfare vs Inititive
8. Offensive Actions
9. The Long Term
10 Recovery

0. Introduction

Some people might question why a person would have a file called "The Zombie Protocals" but if one only looks logicly at the massive amount of danger a zombie can pose once you are ready for it your ready for anything. This is a simple guide to how one would most likely survive the problem known as "Zombies".

Several years ago Dawn of the Dead was remade into a very good zombie movie. At this same time several other zombie movies were released including 28 Days Later, Resident Evil, and Shaun of the Dead. I mention these four movies becuase these are the four movies that best display the wide gambit of zombies and other lesser undead beings and are used as a base for the Protocals. Yes Zombieland has since been released but this has been in the works for a while. Not knocking Zombieland just saying it wasnt why I came up with these.
People offten wonder how or why I came up with this guide but Zombies truly are the end all of a problem one can face. -Nothing- in life will ever be more traumatic, devestating, or cataclysmic as a zombie infestation on this planet. People also try to lump greater demonic beings and aliens in with zombies and I'll tell you way I dont plan for them.

First of all you truly cant plan for aliens. It doesnt matter if its E.T., a Predator, or an Xenomorph. For all we know other life that finds this planet might inhale nitrogen and exhale potasium cyanide. Just by its normal body process the alien could kill us. On the other end of the spectrum an alien race with vastly superior technology would decimate and enslave this planet instantly. We have pissy little weapons and honestly, this planet would probably destory itself with nukes before anything hostile could.

Greater demons pose another kind of problem to plan for. Step one is having something akin to religious beliefs that allow demons to exist. For the sake of an argument lets say we all have found religion and a demon pops up at the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica in Los Angeles. Now what? Now your screwed, along with everyone else on the planet because obviously there is an etheal war raging around us we can not see. This alone negates any kind of plan.

Anyway, this is a forum friendly version of something scattered in notebooks, computers, and several peoples minds. They say the best plans never survive contact with the enemy. I wouldnt expect to live though the first month of zombies, but if I did, this is the plan I'd use. Enjoy.

I'd give it all up for just a little bit more.

Kakisu

1. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:41 pm

Chapter 1: Action verse Inaction

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and thought me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

The very first moment you discover there are zombies loose things can instantly go against you. You might only last thirty seconds. You could be the poor guy who goes to get his morning paper and -BOOM- zombie jumps you. At this point this guide isnt going to help you and your food. You had a bad draw, tought shit.

The second moment you realize their are zombies is the important one because you have the biggest choice of your life to make. Do I try to survive, or do I calmly walk back inside and take myself out of the equation and help the world out. Odds are if you peace yourself out you won't turn into a zombie so there is always that. Again, should you chose to take yourself out this guide stops here and you save yourself some planning.There is zero shame in not taking on the zombies. When you think about the aftermath and how much life would degrade into anarchy and death, not trying to survive sounds better and better. However even in death you can help out those around you. Should you choose to shuffle yourself loose from the mortal coil you save your friends or family food, supplies, time, and its one less zombie to worry about.

When it comes down to it the people who will survive the zombies for the first month are going be ages 15 to 40, in decent physical shape, and have the ability to shut out death in part of their minds. Because of the inherent problem of zombies being dead people you could and will likely be faced with killed the zombie form of someone you knew. Its very important to realize thay they are no longer your wife, child, friend, neighbor, priest, pool boy, quaker, baker, candlestick maker, or parent. They want nothing more the to kill and eat you so you better be ready to shoot first and ask no questions later.

Family is another thing to concider in these first moments of the infestation. Zombie infestation calls for a measured amount of moral flexablity. If you are a parent with a small child (small being defined as a child too young to be effective in combat) odds are stacking against you quickly unless quick action is taken. A small child is really only good for three things. Slowing you down, useing supplies, and bait. Now honestly no one wants to use their kid as bait (covered later in chapter eight) and in this kind of situation you can't have someone useing supplies without the ability to contribute back and with zombies the ability to use a shotgun is a prime skill.

This applies to anyone who could slow you down. The elderly, the injured, the weak, the slow, the fat, and the young are all serious drains on what could be and will become very low supplies. With these people you have a choice: Arm them and leave them or do God's work so to speak. The first of these options will help you sleep at night but cost you a valuable firearm and ammuniton. The second will save you supplies but you need to be ready to handle the mental repercusion of ending your own family for the sake of your own survival.

So now you are 10 minutes into the zombie infestation and your alone or with people whom you know can hack it. Now what?

I'd give it all up for just a little bit more.

Kakisu

2. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:42 pm

Chapter Two: Who do I trust?

I trust two people in the world, ones me and the others not you.

The short version of this chapter is no one. Why you ask? Because someone will shoot you for your water or ammunition or shoes. Shoot first, don't bother with questions. The police arn't going to ask questions. Also never ever trust the military. They might have caused the whole problem and odds are they are going to stick you a camp with people who are or are becoming zombies then you all die.

Should you find yourself with other people though you can trust people to do certain things. You can count on people being stupid, selfish, panicy, and generaly unpleasent. If you are stuck in a group with complete strangers quickly take stock of what you can get away with and steal what you can. To hell with them. If your with friends who you trust and know are reliable in a fight then your better off then if you were alone.

The best group for surviving zombies if around five or six people, maybe a couple more but certainly no more then ten. With less people at some point everyone will be asleep and with too many you attact attention to yourselves and zombies find you. Five to six people can easily keep a steady watch up looking for zombies as well as lay down plenty of fire to eleminate any attacking hordes. If providence smiles on your group you will end up with people who have weapons training. Now I don't mean like police or military, although these people can be very very good at killing zombies, I mean people who hunt and people who like guns. Rednecks and Hillbillys will survive the infestation because of weapon knowledge, access to said weapons, and a remote location.

You want to make sure your group is free of such things as injury and illness if only to keep your mobility up. However things like bite marks and broken limbs can not be tolerated. These people must be put down quickly and effentently to prevent further spead of infection. These are things to keep in mind though out the entire ordeal as it only takes one zombie to keep the cycle going and eventually there will be no more people.

Also its worth mention the mental stability of your group. The people who can shut part of their minds down and truly view a zombie as nothing but a thing are the people who will survive. Hesitation is what will kill 95% of people in the first month. Even those with weapons will be faced with a zombie they don't want to shoot and they will pay the price, possibly infiltrating a camp of healthy people and infecting them at some point.

I'd give it all up for just a little bit more.

Kakisu

3. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:43 pm

3. Supplies

I'd give it all up for just a little bit more.

Supplies are a fairly easy topic when talking about the recently crazy. Water is by far the most important thing you can have, followed closely by proper ammunition for your weapon of choice. In todays society water is pretty easy to come across even if all power generation is lost on the planet. All you need to do is know where to look for your water, food, and ammunition.

In todays world places exist where all your supplies exist under one roof and your only limiting factor is getting there. Massive box stores have sporting goods (guns), groceries (food and water), and other general things like batteries, liquor (for trading later), and a whole host of other things I can think of to make life a little easier.

Now if your super paranoid or you happen to have a spare closet no one will ever open your probably ready for the worst. A case or two of bottled water (16-20oz bottles) can last you as a single person for over a month as long as you have self control. I hesitate to suggest a full gallon (or larger) container for portable water because of the loss sustained when said container no longer holds water.

If you are getting into the game early, as in the first 12 hours of the infection, simply go buy as much as you can possibly get. Don't worry about your credit cards, in a week no one is going to care and you will have everything you need. People might look at you funny when your buying 20 cases of shotgun ammo but they can't really say anything about it since your paying.

However if you are late getting into the game and everything has already started to decline your safest bet is to avoid town all together and hope you have some things already together. If you know someone who lives way out in the country (read 20+ miles from town) head for them and head for them fast. If they arnt home so what. toss the house fast and find what you need then decide if your going to stay there or keep moving. Remember that avoiding human contact in general is the safest way to avoid a zombie.

I could list all the things i would stash away for this but it really is just common sense stuff. Water in weather proof containers. Food that does not require anything to eat. If at all possible find a Wok. This sounds strange but I have one and you can cook anything in it. You can boil drinking water in it, wear it as a hat, or ride it down a muddy hill. Plus a wok is a big chunk of iron. Should you need, you could kill a zombie with a wok and some luck.

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I'd give it all up for just a little bit more.

Kakisu

4. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:43 pm

4. Weapons and Tactics

A weapon unused is a useless weapon.

Good lord, what doesnt go into this chapter. Anything and everything around you is a weapon. However since I'm not going to go into the long long long list of weapons I could want, use, or desire in the event of zombies I'll keep it simple. This is coming down to guns, blades, and others. Tactics wise Zombies are fairly predictable and can be faught in small number succesfully

Guns are projectile weapons made by a company that shoots ammunition. Unless your a total wood hippe and can made your own bow with nothing but a twig and your pubes leave weapons to the pros. Blades are things like swords, knives, spears, halbreds, garden tools, axes, and thing of that nature. Other weapons are just about anything man has ever used to kill another man with. Cars, bats, brass knuckles, sticks, rocks, traps, TVs. or anything else you can use.

As for guns Shotguns are by far your best piece of hardware for self presevation. The 12-gage pump action shotgun is tailor made for killing zombies. This is a direct result of the shotgun being made to end things lives. Originally designed for knocking birds out of the air, the advent of larger shot allowed for larger and larger game to be brought down. Somewhere along the road someone realized that 00-buckshot digs very large holes in people and is used by law enforcment for various uses, including dropping someone like a bad habit.

If you can't get your hands on a shotgun my heart goes out to you. You need to find large caliber handguns and the ammo for them. The Colt 1911 .45 is my prefered handgun for a few reasons. The .45 hollow point (or hydrashocks of you can find them) will easily drop a zombie with a well placed head shot. It is also a large enough handgun to intemidate anyone no infected who you need to steal from or you need to scare off. I would try to avoid something like the desert eagle .50 cals because of weight and ammo shortages. Anything smaller then a .40 cal might not drop a zombie fast enough for you. It's all in what you can get your hands on though.

Rifles are a weapon I might avoid unless you know how to use it properly. By properly you know to use a bolt action to kill at long range, you never use full-auto fire with a military weapon, and you know that inside, a rifle isnt what you want to use. Also unless you know how to shoot your just wasting ammo someone else might use better. However if you do know how to shoot a rifle the bigger the better. Something made to drop a deer is good enough to drop a zombie. From .223 all the way up to something like a .416 sniper rifle will work for a static defense and headshots will 99% of the time drop your target.

While bigger is always better if you have an old .22 of your fathers its still useful. a .22 will punch into a zombie skull and rattle around inside it like a bee in a jar. The same is true for target rounds which might seem useless. Your typical target round is a teflon tipped round that is made to disentigrate when it hits anything harder then plywood. Zombie fleash isnt that hard to get though so your basicly shooting a kevlar piecing round...it will stop a zombie.

Other things out there exist as projectile weapon, such as Bows and crossbows. The Bow in the right hands is just as dangerous as a pistol, and let us not forget the crossbow is the ONLY weapon banned by the Chatholic Church in warfare. Both used for headshots will drop a target and in a world full of zombies don't be scared to use arrows to pin targets to other things like walls or the ground. And arrow though the ankle into asphalt will hold a target still every time.

Bladed weapons are something that hardly exist in our world and surround us at the same time. Yes things like swords and battle axes would be useful with a little on the job training against some zombies but where do you find a real one? Odds are you wont so you do what the chinese did. You use everything in your garage or shed are a weapon. Most martial art weapons trace their roots to farming tools people could train with when it was illegal to own a weapon of any kind.

If you have time to fabricate a bladded weapon (all you need is a shaft and a blade) some things might work better then others. then again unless you have a few key things odds are you can't make anything but don't let that stop you. something is always better then nothing. If you have a large plate glass window break it and you have blades. find a big stick, split it down the middle and insert the glass. Your possibilitys are endless with a little imagination.

The other weapons you might pick up are things like chain saws, a baseball bat, a log, a tire iron or most naything else you can crush a skull with. You must remember though that at the point your are fighting with a melee weapon things have gotten far far too close to you. It's best to get range of some kind.

As for tactics this is a real simple one. If you dont trust it, shoot it in the head. If someone wants your stuff, shoot them in the head. If a zombie is after you shoot it in the head. If you need a meal and you see a stray dog, shoot it in the head. This saves you ammunition and time. Plus a single shot draws much less attention then five or six. If you can't do it in one shot don't take the shot. Waste your ammo and your a slab of meat or worse.

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I'd give it all up for just a little bit more.

Kakisu

5. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:43 pm

Chapter 5

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Kakisu

6. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:44 pm

Ch 6

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Kakisu

7. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:44 pm

ch 7

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Kakisu

8. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:44 pm

ch 8

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Kakisu

9. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:45 pm

ch 9

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Kakisu

10. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 13th, 2010, 10:45 pm

Chapter 10 - Eating up forum space cause its not all written down yet

Yeah sorry bout the reserve slots but meh

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forgeefist

11. Re: The Zombie Protocals » February 15th, 2010, 1:35 pm

I like it bro! but really.. hurry up and finish it!

Kakisu

12. Re: The Zombie Protocals » March 9th, 2010, 2:23 pm

3 & 4

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